The power of graph

Are you struggling to achieve your company goals with your existing technology? Do you want to ask complex questions of your data and receive timely insights and intelligence? In the “Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2020” report, Gartner states, “Finding relationships in combinations of diverse data, using graph techniques at scale, will form the foundation of modern data and analytics.” Gartner also surveyed companies about the use […]

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50 million data transactions a day with Cassandra

We were privileged to be invited by the DevOps.com community to discuss Locstat’s unified data analytics platform at a webinar sponsored by our partners DataStax. The three main topics were: How did Locstat decide what open source technologies to use? Why we decided to use DataStax Enterprise? How to scale with zero downtime?     It was great to tell the world about our journey and show how we deliver next-generation solutions to our […]

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The impact of COVID-19 on retail | Why customer loyalty can’t be ignored

Are you getting the necessary insights into your customers to ensure you are maximising their customer experience? How are you tracking your loyalty programme? Are you preventing customer churn? Do you have a customer 360 view of your customers? And what of Covid-19? How did that impact on your customers and your rewards program? Locstat, along with its partner iOCO recently did an exciting webinar discussing “The impact of Covid-19 […]

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iOCO partners with Locstat

Locstat is delighted to announce its partnership with iOCO : Technology solutions leader iOCO has partnered with Locstat, a company specialising in graph-powered AI and event processing for augmented intelligence, to bring clients a cost-effective data analysis and visualisation solution. The partnership will enable iOCO to add this unique solution to its comprehensive data offering, while expanding Locstat’s reach internationally. Varsha Ramesar, Cluster Executive for Data and Analytics at iOCO, […]

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The importance of customer segmentation.

What is Segmentation? How do you target certain elements of your customer database as part of a strategic campaign? The best way is by using segmentation. A segment is a group of customers with similar characteristics, perhaps they react the same way to an offering, spend the same amount or have similar preferences. Segmentation can be based on a variety of indicators including behaviour, loyalty, location, demographics, psychographics and transactional […]

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Partnering with the best

DataStax DataStax (www.datastax.com) is a hybrid and multi-cloud database. Built on Apache Cassandra™ and designed from the ground up to run anywhere, on any cloud, in any datacenter, and in every possible combination. DataStax delivers the ultimate hybrid and multi-cloud database. DataStax empowers you to build data-driven applications that set the standard for performance, availability, and scale. Locstat is a DataStax Partner https://www.datastax.com/blog/2020/01/locstat-uses-datastax-graph-powered-iot-event-processing Great Blog!! With DataStax Enterprise (DSE) we have […]

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Locstat gets recognised by Grindstone 4 program

Over the 2018 / 2019 period, Locstat was privileged to participated in the ‘Grindstone (4)’ program. This is a great accelerator +, run by Knife Capital ( https://www.knifecap.com/) and Thinkroom (https://www.thinkroom.co.za/). Locstat was delighted to be recognised by the program and were generously given an award which we will spend on an international conference next year! Great program guys and thanks for the opportunity!

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Data driven capability for community safety

Locstat provides software solutions to a number of markets. One of these is the safety and security industry. We look to help organisations realise a data-driven approach to their security models by using our technology. Locstat, as a give-back to society, provide the ‘Locstat Cx’ service for South African communities to help follow this data-driven approach in their multi-layered security models. Communities could be a Community Policing Forum (CPF), Neighbourhood […]

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Locstat and DataStax

Check out this great Case Study created by DataStax. Locstat uses DSE to power our capabilities to great affect. https://www.datastax.com/resources/case-study/locstat-powers-iot-solutions-datastax-enterprise Using DSE, we built a rules engine that can not only query inline transactions, but image all of the sensor data streaming into the environment, and then provide dashboard functionality where the end user can see in real time what’s going on in the environment. In addition, we store and […]

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